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The eyes of murdered, raped Afrikaans policewoman Amelia Henning, 36, mother of two, were gouged out: she was then dumped by her black rapists on an empty site at Pasteur Drive, Hospital Park, Bloemfontein..

The local SAPS reservist and charge-office clerk was raped and stabbed to death in Hospitaal Park, Bloemfontein. According to the news at the time, nothing of value was robbed. However it now emerged that one of her murderers admitted killing her and then selling her cellphone. Her shoes were found in his house. Her naked body was discovered by two Afrikaans pupils from Dr Böhmer school nearby, Dwane Tebrugge, 17 and Alex Smith, 14. The two youths had been walking in Pasteur Drive at around 7.30am when they made the terrifying discovery. Mrs Henning was last seen at 19:30 on Nov 22 2010 when she left her home on foot in Fowler Street, Hospitaal Park, said apartment-building owner’s son Coenie Beukes. “She had fetched meat from our freezer to have a braai somewhere,’ he said. She didn’t have a car. Her ex-husband Frans’ second wife Marisa said it was the most difficult day of her life: she had to inform Amelia’s daughters Megan-Lee, 17, and Franschesc, 10, of their mother’s death. Frans was out of town at the time. I had to tell them their mommy was dead, she wept. “I am sure she didn’t go without a fight. She must have fought like a lion.’ Col. Mrs Thandiwe Qhobosheane said she ‘could not describe in words what she felt about Mrs Henning’s murder. “She was one of a kind and her death is a massive loss for the SAPS,’ she said at the time -

Why did they gouge out her eyes? Her murderers didn’t explain… but one suspect was declared insane and incarcerated in a mental hospital…

On Tuesday August 23 2011, the court heard all the gruesome details of the terrifying way in which the Afrikaans mother of two children was murdered. Initially accused of her murder/rape were Seanette Mashinini, 23; Lucky Nhgwedi, 19; and Thabo Mokoena, 18. Mashinini admitted to acting judge E.M. Kubushi that he had robbed and murdered Mrs Henning, but denied raping her – even though he admitted this earlier to the investigating officer. Nhgwedi, 19, has denied all guilt, while the co-accused Mokoena was declared insane and admitted as a patient of the State President to a mental hospital.

Mashinini said in his plea-explanation that he and ‘Thabo’ walked at the railway tracks near the Pasteur hospital when they saw the policewoman walk on the opposite side of the road. She was alone. They ran across the road, grabbed the white woman and dragged her into the veldt. Mashinini pulled down her pants and strangled her while Thabo raped her. She fought and kicked fiercely so Thabo then took out a knife and repeatedly stabbed her. Mashinini then grabbed the knife and also stabbed her. The police-forensic examination revealed that she was stabbed 30 times. Mashinini said it ‘was dark and he could not know exactly where he had stabbed her’. Henning then ‘lay still’. At that point, the two black men decided to gouge out her eyes. Mashinini then took her shoes and cellphone and sold the latter. The shoes were found in his house when he was arrested.

State advocate Silas Chalale refused to accept Mashini’s plea-explanation because he had not explained Nhgwedi’s role in Mrs Henning’s murder.

SAPS captain Francois Laux testified earlier during a trial-within-a-trial that Mashinini had pointed out specific accurate details of the murder-scene to him on 14 December 2010. During that examination of the crime-scene, Mashinini also admitted to Laux that he had also raped Mrs Henning after his comrade had done so, and that she was at that point still alive and kicking towards her assailants; and that they then had both stabbed her with the knife. They then made the joint decision to gouge out her eyes but his comrade did the gouging, Mashinini told Laux at the crime scene. Mashinini claimed yesterday that he had ‘testified yesterday because he was assaulted by police officers, and that he also told Laux for that reason that he had raped her. He was allegedly frightened that he would be assaulted again.’

Afrikaans journo Yolanda Barnard of Sondag: ‘The four cops told me they pulled me over because I was white,' she said… Afrikaans news-photographer Craig Nieuwenhuizen was bashed, kicked and beaten by security guards at the Unisa campus while investigating a story on Tuesday.

Jacques Steenkamp of Beeld newspaper writes that Afrikaans journalist Yolanda Barnard, 32, entertainment-reporter for Sondag tabloid, suffered a cracked nose-bone when she was battered in the face by a black policewoman on Sunday-afternoon Aug 22 2011. She has lodged charges at Midrand police station. Miss Barnard had just left the 'Liedjieboer-Kroeg', an Afrikaans entertainment venue at Olifantsfontein Road in Midrand, on Sunday at 4:15pm. She had spent the afternoon with entertainers Kurt Darren, DJ Ossewa and others to celebrate singer Pieter Smith's birthday. "I had a few drinks but also had a lot to eat,' she said. "I drove myself because I was not drunk. About a block away from the venue I was pulled over by four black police members. I asked them why they pulled me over specifically, and they said 'because you are white,' she said. The four cops, three men and a woman, ordered her to follow them and the four cops climbed back into their minibus. She followed them in her car because she believed they would just go to the nearest police station. However instead they stopped in a quiet dead-end street, demanded her driver's license and her keys. "I wanted to know again why they pulled me over and the woman said 'because you are drunk.' I asked them to do a breathaliser test right there and then -- because I know I was not drunk. The black female cop then battered me in the face. 'Ms Barnard was then grabbed by her arms and legs by the police woman and a male cop, and they carried her to the minibus. The other two black male cops stood there and laughed at her humiliation. "I then told them that I was a journalist, and they suddenly dropped me right there on the tarmac. I jumped up and locked myself into my car." An hour later, after posting at her car all that time, the four cops apparently decided they'd had enough and they all got back into the minivan. Ms Barnard then climbed out and pleaded with them to give her back her driver's license and keys. They threw her belongings on the ground from the bus. She never was charged with anything. "I am now terrified of the police. How can anyone trust them after such an incident?" she said. She was examined by a doctor who confirmed her suspicion that a bone may have been cracked in her nose. Editor of Sondag newspaper Peet Bothma said the newspaper takes a very strong stand against police cruelty and assaults, just as any other newspaper should also do. "We support Yolanda completely in lodging her criminal charges, as well as the civil claim she will be lodging,' he said. SAPS captain Agnes Huma confirmed that the journalist lodged formal charges of assault and intimidation against the specific police members involved.

Afrikaans news-photographer assaulted at Unisa campus while investigating a story - Beeld photographer Craig Nieuwenhuizen after he was assaulted in front of his colleague Alet Rademeyer by Unisa security guards. (Photo24)

Cape Town. Aug 23 2011 - A photographer from Beeld newspaper was assaulted by Unisa security guards on Tuesday while investigating complaints about a stench in a campus building. The security guard had earlier refused to grant Beeld's reporter, Alet Rademeyer, and the photographer, Craig Nieuwenhuizen, access to the sonamed ‘Es'kia Mphahlele’ building. When the guard walked to the main entrance of the building, Nieuwenhuizen and Rademeyer followed him. According to Rademeyer a second guard approached them, shouting that they should return to the gate. He shoved Nieuwenhuizen. An argument ensued, after which Nieuwenhuizen and Rademeyer walked to the gate. At the gate the guard grabbed Nieuwenhuizen by the throat. Two or three more guards started to hit the photographer. Nieuwenhuizen took pepper spray from his pocket to ward of the attackers. According to Rademeyer he fell to the ground while the guards continued kicking him and ignoring her pleas for them to stop. Peet Kruger, editor of Beeld, said in response to the assault that "thuggery of this sort is unacceptable and flies in the face of democracy". "The journalists were at a building which is a public institution."The role of journalists is to tell the story of all South Africans so that ordinary people can be heard and problems can be highlighted in the hope that people with the proper authority can fix them. "In this case the story was about the unpleasant working conditions of Unisa staff after the department of labour had ordered the air conditioning to be shut off. "Assault and violence is not the way to handle investigations and debate." Unisa spokesperson Doreen Gough said they deeply regret the incident. "We’ve always had a good relationship with Beeld and the other photographers. We are investigating the incident," she said.

Afrikaans journo Yolanda Barnard of Sondag: ‘The four cops told me they pulled me over because I was white,' she said. After she was punched in the face, two cops carried her by her arms and legs to their minivan while the other two laughed at her humiliation…

Jacques Steenkamp of Beeld newspaper writes that Afrikaans journalist Yolanda Barnard, 32, entertainment-reporter for Sondag tabloid, suffered a cracked nose-bone when she was battered in the face by a black policewoman on Sunday-afternoon Aug 22 2011. She has lodged charges at Midrand police station.

Miss Barnard had just left the 'Liedjieboer-Kroeg', an Afrikaans entertainment venue at Olifantsfontein Road in Midrand, on Sunday at 4:15pm. She had spent the afternoon with entertainers Kurt Darren, DJ Ossewa and others to celebrate singer Pieter Smith's birthday. "I had a few drinks but also had a lot to eat,' she said. "I drove myself because I was not drunk. About a block away from the venue I was pulled over by four black police members. I asked them why they pulled me over specifically, and they said 'because you are white,' she said.

The four cops, three men and a woman, ordered her to follow them and the four cops climbed back into their minibus. She followed them in her car because she believed they would just go to the nearest police station. However instead they stopped in a quiet dead-end street, demanded her driver's license and her keys.

"I wanted to know again why they pulled me over and the woman said 'because you are drunk.' I asked them to do a breathaliser test right there and then -- because I know I was not drunk. The black female cop then battered me in the face. '

Ms Barnard was then grabbed by her arms and legs by the police woman and a male cop, and they carried her to the minibus. The other two black male cops stood there and laughed at her humiliation.

"I then told them that I was a journalist, and they suddenly dropped me right there on the tarmac. I jumped up and locked myself into my car." An hour later, after posting at her car all that time, the four cops apparently decided they'd had enough and they all got back into the minivan. Ms Barnard then climbed out and pleaded with them to give her back her driver's license and keys. They threw her belongings on the ground from the bus.

She never was charged with anything. "I am now terrified of the police. How can anyone trust them after such an incident?" she said. She was examined by a doctor who confirmed her suspicion that a bone may have been cracked in her nose. Editor of Sondag newspaper Peet Bothma said the newspaper takes a very strong stand against police cruelty and assaults, just as any other newspaper should also do.

"We support Yolanda completely in lodging her criminal charges, as well as the civil claim she will be lodging,' he said. SAPS captain Agnes Huma confirmed that the journalist lodged formal charges of assault and intimidation against the specific police members involved.

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